Raptors Training Camp in Vancouver

Professional basketball is coming back to the Lower Mainland. News1130 has learned the Toronto Raptors will hold their training camp in Vancouver this year and are trying to schedule a pre-season game at GM Place. Training camp likely happen sometime in the last week of September or the first week of October.

I understand what the hardcore fans say, and I've seen the numbers, but I was also living in Vancouver at the time and I can say without a shred of doubt that by the time of the lockout most people in the city has given up.

The team had limited support, media critics that would make Leafs fans blush, and ZERO buzz in the city. Did Vancouver outdraw Memphis? Well, yeah... Vancouver is double the size, and the team hasn't improved much.

I'm not claiming the NBA couldn't have survived in B.C. I'm just saying that the experience isn't one that anybody I know would be eager to repeat.

Anyway... I was making a joke about the Raptors, not Vancouver. Lighten up.